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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.

Margaret Mead

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
MARGARET MEAD

Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
MARGARET MEAD

Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
MARGARET MEAD

Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
MARGARET MEAD

Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
MARGARET MEAD

Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEAD

Access Human Need Order
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEAD

Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.

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